The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-03
WHY SOME WOMEN posE.
Beautiful Forms Seen Only I'm tho
studio-A Bnshful Shop-GfrL ~

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A Star reporter asked well-known
artist: why does an artist have to
have modelp With all the statues
and pictures and sketches that already
exist, why must he still go to the origin
al flesh for his design"
"This is realistic age" was the re-
ply. ARTISTS used TO study the antique
the antique forever. Now they want
the real thing-thc thing of life. The
art schools used to demand that fig
ure be so many heads high. Now they
want them as they are, all varying, rs
faces vary, as everything varies in actu-
al life.
In paris there are artists who so
about the streets in wagons with peep
holes cut in the side. of the wagon tops,
stopping wherever there is queer
posture or interesting group or pretty
face or anything worth reproducing.
Pictures now must be taken from the
life. II two artists study together, it is
! DO observed that one gets all the
\lbtlctics OF coloring. veining and skin
,xturc, while the other misses most of
lem. II is the same with landscape
ainting. Landscapes used mainly to
l,c invented. Now artists are not con-
,ntcd without getting even the peculiar
| cht Of the country they are painting
!, and all It's effects on the ground and
iaves of trees.
IAN artist demands of his model that
! he shall be plump, pretty and clean.
Artists cndcavor to get s!ttngs from
|heir models in the morning, when the
model is just out of bed, so she shall be
fresh. vigorous and spirited. They pay
Tor private models about 81 or $3.50 an
icur. and usually entertain them at
luncheon. There is no end to men
models. Artists find that they can get
almost any man to pose, drnped or
nude, for one third less than women de-
mand. Every artist In, the addresses
OF fifty men. II an artist opens stu
do in this city it won't be three days
before they and as many women will
call and ask for work and beg for
money.
Women differ very much. Sarony,
the photographer and artist says OF all
the women he has seen, but two were
perfect. The consequences is that this
one is chosen to pose for her limbs, an
other fer her torso, or trunk, and so
On. Women who have thin and un-
faces often possess the most
beautiful forms. The face is no criter-
.on in Judging of n model. Artists all
agree that tho vanity with which wo-
men is charged with possessing is no
SANDER upon the sex, for in private life
it is fonnd that many women. the
proudest and most correct can more
or less easily be got to pose re gulary,
1raped or decoletlc or in short skirts.
Thus figures not obtainabie among mod
els are often procurable for nothing,
and the women are proud Of being Sc
lected for this purpose. This is espec-
tally so with married women. Once
they trust the honor of an artist they
will suffer themselves to be put in any
posture, no matter how ridiculous.
Artists find that when they SGT up their
eascls in the country the men will
'augh at them, but the women will
draw near to be skctched."
Ny artist friend told me an interest
ing story of an experience he had with
q woman, now celebrated model,
when she first posed in studio. She
dropped in upon him saying that she
had been counter girl in O'Neips,
shopping store, at about So n week,
and could not make both ends meet;
that lady friend, who was a model.
had spoken of him as a gentleman, and
that il he needed subject she would
like him to tell her what TO do. He told
her what she would have to accustom
herself to if she followed that life, but
she said she knew all about ii. He
pointed to screen and babe her go be-
hind it and take OFF her things. Pres
emily she reappeared, but little more
undress than If she were about TO retire.
| informed that this was not wanted,
she disappeared and next revealed her
self in complete undress, but with her
back TO the artist. Here was an eX-
BEAUTIFUL form, and as he
made sketch of her figure, he debated
with himself how he should deal with
her. He resolved to DO wholly business
like. and so. walking over TO where she
stood, he babe her turn around, and he
posed her as he wished her to stand.
By the time no reached his easel she was
bent double, and indulging in fit of
crying. blended with almost hysterlcal
laughter He told her it was quite evil
dent that she had better give up her
ambition and return 10 her former life,
and he sunnosed She would. But she